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Just saw this video on the ARD-site: https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/olympia/video-hoffnung-auf-olympia--beim-doppelvierer-der-maenner-100.html Looks like the German Quadrupples are always good when it comes to it. We have to wait for 364 more days till we know the result :-)

Today the 200m freestyle swimming; likely no Dutch entry, but still one of the highlights for me! Time trial women: Chloe Dygert will destroy the rest of the field, but maybe a silver for Annemiek van Vleuten (the one with the horrible crash in Rio)? At the men's side I'm hoping for Tom Dumoulin. Hopefully he'll somewhere finds his form back. Biggest chance for gold for The Netherlands is the Women's Four (rowing). Will be close with Australia and China, but they can do it!

Well, in the Women's Quadrupple Sculls Poland has a great chance to win. Germany and Netherlands aren't that good anymore. Biggest threat for Poland: China and Ukraïne.

Day 4, another day with a lot of Dutch athletes. The second match of our handball women and hockey women (both world champion). But the main focus from a Dutch point of view today is on rowing, the finals of the Men's and Women's Quadruple sculls. Hopefully they can medal both. Other interesting events for me to look forward to are the 200m freestyle swimming (men), triathlon (women) and MTB (women). What a day!!!

The Schurter - van der Poel clash definitely highlights day 3 for me. Furthermore the start of the RSX sailing; Kiran Badloe took out two times Olympic champion (12,16) Dorian van Rijsselberghe in the qualifications, so Badloe is a great medal hope for us.

Women's gymnastics with Rio gold Sanne Wevers on beam and Eythora Thorsdottir on floor Road cycling women with Annemiek van Vleuten and Marianne Vos Swimming 4x100 women and Arno Kamminga breaststroke

In the 400 meter competition in Bern two of our youngest athletes posted personal bests: Femke Bol 51,13 and Lieke Klaver 51,39. With Lisanne de Witte (PB 50,85) we now have three very promising 400 meter-runners. Such a pity the best one, Madiea Ghafoor, is in jail for drugs sale. Otherwise we would have a really competitive 4x400 relay team.

Well, normally I would be very happy with our first medal at this moment: in the mixed recurve competition. Our handball women were in the form of their lives, like swimmer Arno Kamminga and some rowing teams. We would have seen them at the first day, but instead I have to cry all day in between hoping for a vaccine. Strength for all sport enthousiasts! And more important: stay healthy!

Handball EC!!

Well, I predict a cancellation as there's no vaccin for Covid-19 in a few months. In The Netherlands people told the vaccins are only ready in autumn 2021, so I fear the Games will be cancelled.

I'm rewatching some of the final sessions of the 2000 Sydney Olympics ... almost 20 years ago that Pieter van den Hoogenband (Hoogie) and Inge de Bruijn (Inky) dominated international swimming. That were the days!

Miyachi already won 3 stages. Zonderland as well, so we will have a tiebreaker definitely. The only reason why Miyachi skips the last two World Cups is that he knows he will be selected for the Japanese team. Otherwise I don't understand him. He 'only' needs to win the next World Cup with a score of 14,733 to surpass Zonderland.

Very disappointing result for Roest, but a very nice battle between Bloemen and Kramer . And Fish ... he will be the champion at the 10km. And another medal for in the teamsprint women. Whoop whoop

I can't find a list of competitors. Are Sharon van Rouwendaal and Ferry Weertman competing?

Thanks! And happy that Netherlands and Italy won't fight each other for the Olympic ticket. We beat Italy 10-4 at the ECh, but the Italian players were infected (virus) that day according Dutch media. Normally Italy is a little better than us.

Hopefully you are right! Semifinals as deciding matches will be interesting.

I'm not sure about it, but the person who did the draw ceremony mumbled something like that. The men's tournament has quarter finals and semi finals for sure.

and in the same poule at the Olympic Qualification tournament. In the end only 10 teams are participating (Africa and South America withdrew), therefore there will be only a round robin. Both poule winners qualify for the Olympics. Not very happy with this draw, against Italy in Italy.

Dutch World Champions Bekkering/Duetz didn't have a great start either. They already collected a lot of points. Third world title in a row is not very likely anymore. At the men's side Bos/van Vugt still fighting for an Olympic place. NOC decided they have to finish top 6 at least. After this first day they are 4th!

Well, hopefully Netherlands and Italy will be in the same poule, so they won't play against each other in the deciding match. A shame that South Africa plays at the Olympics. Probably they lose 4 times with 50 goals difference.

Didn't know that. Thought Hungary 'bought' the Kruegers ...

Thank God Shaoang Liu isn't Dutch. Those 'Hungarian' Liu-brothers are way too arrogant. By the way: why does Hungary buy half of their relayteams? Both Krueger-brothers are American and Lockett is Australian. Seems like shorttrack is the new Athletics and Table Tennis.

[hide] Men's Tournament - Knockout RoundJanuary 20th - January 26th, 202012 Nations, Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Third Place Match Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 26th 2020, h. 17:30 Montenegro 1 Croatia Final Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 26th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 1 Spain [/hide]

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Yes they have. Ten countries will participate: we already know six of them. China, South Africa and two out of will complete the field.